Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Azerbaijan Should be Very Afraid of Nuland
The US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, visited Baku on 16 February as part of her trip to the Caucasus, which also saw her paying stops in Georgia and Armenia. While Azerbaijan has had positive relations with the US since independence, they’ve lately been complicated by Washington’s...
Not so Quiet on the Eastern Front
Patriotism is in fashion again, as Lithuania’s fears of Russia lead to a discussion on renewing conscription. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What’s Behind Lithuania’s Restored Compulsory Military Service?
About seven years after abolishing compulsory military service and amidst the tense situation in Ukraine, Lithuania has restored conscription. Eurasia Outlook asked its experts to weigh in on the deeper meaning of this maneuver and what its consequences might be. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
For Ukraine, the Battle to Bolster a Crashing Economy Is as Dire as Combat in the East
Ukraine’s struggle to keep afloat economically has been daunting, as its parliament has fallen into disarray and failed to enact major economic reforms. Ukrainian lawmakers could help by dealing better with the national budget but their recent deliberations inspired little public confidence. …read more Source:...
Russian-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Ukraine
The Middle East Program and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center present Russian-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Ukraine with Mark Katz Professor of Government and Politics, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, and former scholar, Woodrow Wilson CenterDirections: Directions to the...
Free Rein of Special Services Makes Russia Ungovernable
It took a week for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce a pair of plausible suspects in the shocking murder of Boris Nemtsov on February 28 (see EDM, March 2). Last Saturday (March 7), FSB Director Aleksandr Bortnikov reported to President Vladimir Putin that two men implicated in the crime were under arrest; and on Sunday,...
US military force sizing for both war and peace
Key PointsThe Pentagon employs a force-sizing construct to define the upper limits of what the military is able to do. Although the capability to fight two major, near-simultaneous wars has served as a traditional force-sizing construct and benchmark for America’s superpower status, this standard has been watered down in recent years and...
One year of western sanctions against Russia: We still live in different worlds
Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from an op-ed originally written for Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, a Berlin-based journal on current international affairs published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The United States and the European Union have now both announced that they are extending the economic sanctions they first...
When the State Defends Itself Against Its Citizens
The case of Svetlana Davydova, the mother of seven children who was accused of high treason for the benefit of Ukraine, was not only the first high-profile case of espionage since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, but also the first case that falls under the new provisions of Article 275 of the Criminal Code. IMR legal expert Ekaterina...
The Russian Military Forum: Russia’s Hybrid War Campaign: Implications for Ukraine and Beyond
The CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program is pleased to invite you to a discussion with Dr. Phillip Karber, President of the Potomac Foundation, a defense and foreign policy think-tank. Dr. Karber, who is also a former DOD official and veteran defense analyst, will discuss Russia’s “hybrid warfare” campaign in eastern Ukraine. read...
